Bird - Lore 



Columbia, central Washington, central Oregon, and western California; south to 

 southern California, northern Sonora, northern Durango, southern Coahuila, 

 and southern Tamaulipas; and east to central Tamaulipas, central Texas, 

 central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, eastern Missouri, eastern Iowa, and 

 Wisconsin; occasionally to eastern lUinois and northern Michigan. It winters 

 from southern British Columbia, Colorado, and Nebraska, south to Louisiana, 

 southern Texas, southern Tamaulipas, Michoacan, Jalisco, and southern Lower 

 California. It is of accidental occurrence at Fort Simpson in southwestern 

 Mackenzie. 



The Northwestern Meadowlark {Sturnella negleda confluenta)* is 

 resident and breeds in the Pacific Coast region of North America north to 

 southwestern British Columbia, south through western Washington to north- 

 western Oregon, and east to the Cascade Mountains. 



Records in the subjoined migration tables all pertain to the Western 

 Meadowlark. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



LOCALITY 



Sious Falls, S. D 



Rapid City, S. D 



Argusville, N. D 



Marstonmoor, N. D.. . . 



Bathgate, N. D 



Pilot Mound, Manitoba 



Aweme, Manitoba 



Reaburn, Manitoba. . . . 



Qu'AppcUe, Sask 



Ft. Simpson, Mack 



Beulah, Colo 



Denver, Colo 



Cheyenne, Wyo 



Rathdrum, Idaho 



Terry, Mont 



Bozeman, Mont 



Big Sandy, Mont 



Columbia Falls, Mont.. 



Flagstaff, Alberta 



Spokane, Wash 



Mirror Lake, B. C 



Number 



of years' 



record 



14 



16 



5 

 10 



3 

 4 



.•\veraKe date of 

 spring arrival 



March 18 

 March 26 

 March 31 

 March 21 

 April 3 

 March 31 

 April I 

 April 5 

 April 2 



March 10 

 March 16 

 April 1 

 February 22 

 March 30 

 March 23 

 March 30 

 March 27 

 April 7 

 February 2^ 

 March 2'8 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



March 11, 1908 

 March 7, 1910 

 March 17, 1S94 

 March 11, 1910 

 March 24, 1894 

 March 20, 1910 

 March 21, 191 1 

 March 26, 1902 

 March 14, 1909 

 May 20, 1904 

 Rare, winter 

 Rare, winter 

 March 27, 1889 

 February 4, 1906 

 March 22, 1894 

 March 20, 1903 

 March 24, 1907 

 March 19, 1896 

 March 23, 1915 

 February 1 1, 1907 

 March 18, 191 1 



FALL MIGRATION 



LOCALITY 



Sioux Falls, S. D.. . . 



Rapid City, S. D 



Marstonmoor, N. D. 

 .\weme, Manitoba. . 



iJculah, Colo 



liozeman, Mont 



Big Sandy, Mont 



Nu"mber 



of years' 



record 



9 



4 



19 



10 



4 

 3 



.\verage date of 

 last one observed 



November 2 

 November 9 

 October 27 

 October 25 

 October 27 

 October 22 

 October 15 



Latest date of 

 last one observed 



November 7, 1915 

 November 26, 1915 

 November 27, 1909 

 November 8, 1907 

 Rare, winter 

 November 5, 191 2 

 October 27, 1906 



♦This proposed form has not as yet been acted upon by the Committee on Nomenclature and Classi- 

 fication of the .American Ornithologists' Union. (Ed.) 



